Table of Contents
Introduction: Let's Take a Journey Together 9
1 Are We Cannibals? 19
2 The Birth of Fatherhood 33
3 Who Were the First Hominin Ancestors? 47
4 Big-Brained Babies Give Moms Big Grief 59
5 Meat Lovers R Us 67
6 Got Milk? 77
7 A Gene for Snow White 85
8 Granny Is an Artist 93
9 Did Farming Bring Prosperity? 105
10 Peking Man and the Yakuza 113
11 Asia Challenges Africa's Stronghold on the Birthplace of Humanity 121
12 Cooperation Connects You and Me 131
13 King Kong 141
14 Breaking Back 151
15 In Search of the Most Humanlike Face 161
16 Our Changing Brains 169
17 You Are a Neanderthal! 179
18 The Molecular Clock Does Not Keep Time 189
19 Denisovans: The Asian Neanderthals? 199
20 Hobbits 207
21 Seven Billion Humans, One Single Race? 217
22 Are Humans Still Evolving? 227
Epilogue 1 Precious Humanity 235
Epilogue 2 An Invitation to an Unfamiliar World of Paleoanthropology 241
Appendix 1 Common Questions and Answers about Evolution 247
Appendix 2 Overview of Hominin Evolution 255
Further Reading 265
Index 287